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How much money did Thomas Jefferson tell Robert Livingston he was allowed to offer on the purchase?​

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Monroe, Livingston were forced? by Congress to offer up to $2 million to purchase the east bank of the Mississippi; Jefferson secretly advised them to offer over $9 million for Florida and New Orleans. Napoléon initially resisted U.S. offers, but changed his mind in 1803

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